United Way, Social Enterprise Greenhouse Team to Create Nonprofit Innovation Lab

United Way, Social Enterprise Greenhouse Team to Create Nonprofit Innovation Lab

The United Way of Rhode Island (UWRI) has teamed with Social Enterprise Greenhouse (SEG) to offer a creative nonprofit innovation lab to local executives.

The Nonprofit Innovation Lab’s goal is to help the development of self-sustaining, new solutions that will enable organizations to expand and speed up their ability to create positive social impact.

Applications can be submitted by clicking here.

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The deadline to apply is November 4, 2019.

The Nonprofit Innovation Lab

United Way and SEG will pick up to ten participants as the program’s first cohort of Fellows, providing the knowledge, tools, and resources needed to launch new solutions to existing social problems, and to compete for funds to set their new ideas to action.

Along with utilizing a social impact curriculum, the Nonprofit Innovation Lab offers Fellows the critical resources – coaching, access to networks and capital – that they need to bring their ideas to life.

The Nonprofit Innovation Lab runs from January through June 2020, and consists of three components:

• 6-week Boot Camp with intensive expert instruction via two 4-hour sessions each week, as well as online curriculum to refine innovation plans and set milestone goals.
• 16-week Milestone Accelerator phase, when Fellows connect and work with advisors throughout United Way and SEG networks.
• Nonprofit Innovation Pitch Event, in late June 2020, five of the Fellows present their final innovation plans in a competition for $90,000 in seed money.

 

Application Process

The online application will remain open through noon on November 4.

Interested candidates will answer a series of questions regarding their organization and their idea, and submit up to 10 slides outlining their proposed new product or service. Application finalists will be notified in November and will be asked to present at a Quick Pitch selection event in December.

Fellows will be announced immediately following the December event.

Application information sessions for program applicants will be held at the following times and locations:

• Tuesday, October 8 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm: Social Enterprise Greenhouse (10 Davol Square, Providence)
• Tuesday, October 15 – 5:30pm to 6:30pm: Social Enterprise Greenhouse (10 Davol Square, Providence)
• Thursday, October 17 – 5:30pm to 6:30pm: Progreso Latino (626 Broad Street, Central Falls)
• Thursday, October 24 – 8:00am to 9:00am: Innovate Newport (513 Broadway, Newport)